Please answer the following questions regarding the first example you selected:

a. Cite your selection in MLA style.

b. What is the central message of this text? Please explain it in your own words.

c. How would you define your position as an audience member (resistant, neutral, etc.)? With your own position in mind, what kind of audience do you think the author is trying to reach? Please provide an example to support your answer.

d. What appeal(s) are being used in this text (ethos, etc.)? Give a specific example from the text to support your answer.

e. Did you find the argument persuasive? Why or why not? If you were in charge of editing this example, what would you change? What would you keep the same?